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Afghans burn U.S. food airdrops
Kyodo no url don't ask
| 10/10/01
Posted on 10/10/2001 1:13:38 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 11 Kyodo
Afghan civilians in Vardak and Ghazni provinces close to Kabul have burned food packages air-dropped by the United States in protest against U.S. air strikes, according to reports from Afghanistan.
A source in Peshawar, western Pakistan, citing witness accounts from Afghanistan, said several hundred people in each of the two provinces gathered the packets of rice and fruit dropped by the U.S. military, piled them up outside their homes and torched them.
''No need for pity,'' some of them chanted.
''We will fight America to the end.''
On Tuesday, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salem Zaeef, denounced the U.S. food drop policy, calling it ''an insult'' to the Afghan people.
U.S. President George W. Bush initiated the food drop policy, saying Afghans -- long suffering from food shortages brought on by drought -- are American friends and that the U.S. air strike was targeted at the Taliban and alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden and his network.
U.S. officials say more than 100,000 food packets have been dropped in Afghanistan.
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To: NativeNewYorker
Methinks they'll learn to love the civilian MREs when winter comes...
To: NativeNewYorker
Good. I am sure they will now enjoy eating ashes during the coming winter.
To: NativeNewYorker
That Taliban idiot...has he never heard brazed fruit?
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:18:19 PM PDT
by
JohnMac
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To: NativeNewYorker
...alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden and his network.
Alleged? How I've come to loath this word.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:18:53 PM PDT
by
dsmatuska
To: NativeNewYorker
These people are in famine mode and have been eating grass. Grass!! There is no way they burned food.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:19:32 PM PDT
by
Pete
To: NativeNewYorker
Shoulda printed "no preparation required" in Afghan on the packages.
Fruit rollups don't taste good flame broiled.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:19:38 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: NativeNewYorker
What a disgusting, wasteful thing. Just think of all the poor starving children in Afganistan who would love to have that food. Oops, guess there are no poor starving children in Afganistan or they wouldn't be burning up perfectly good food.
To: NativeNewYorker
That stuff tastes much better after it has been properly burned.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:20:01 PM PDT
by
Movemout
To: NativeNewYorker
Let them eat each other.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:20:07 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: NativeNewYorker
Then we can stop dropping food and let them starve.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:20:16 PM PDT
by
FITZ
To: NativeNewYorker
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A source in Peshawar, western Pakistan, citing witness accounts from Afghanistan, said several hundred people in each of the two provinces gathered the packets of rice and fruit dropped by the U.S. military, piled them up outside their homes and torched them."
Oh boy, a third hand account! Wow, IF they are burning the food, I'll bet that the people torching the food aren't starving Afghan citizens, but the same fat Talibanazis who are roaming the countryside in their Mercedes. I wouldn't put it past these dictatorial pigs to eat all they want, then burn the food that falls for the common citizens...
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To: NativeNewYorker
''We will fight America to the end.''Would they not be more effective fighters with full bellies?
And these Einsteins blame the West for their abject poverty.
To: NativeNewYorker
While anything is possible, I would need to get an independent confirmation of this. I find it difficult to believe that the Taliban is so popular in that country that anyone would protest its demise, regardless of the cause.
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:20:54 PM PDT
by
stevem
To: NativeNewYorker
I think the more accurate headline is: Talibans burn U.S. food airdrops. Since when are the Talibans Afghans?
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:21:12 PM PDT
by
WRhine
To: NativeNewYorker
What's the difference between the Taliban and the inmates of an asylum for the criminally insane?
Nothing.
To: NativeNewYorker
And don't forget, the jury sees this piece of evidence too!
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posted on
10/10/2001 1:21:46 PM PDT
by
Bogie
To: NativeNewYorker
Afghans burn U.S. food airdropsIt must smell wonderful.... mmmmmmm.... everything smells better, charbroiled.... :o)
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